Junior Software Engineer

Realize your potential by joining the leading performance-driven advertising company! As a Junior Backend Engineer on the Demand team in our Budapest office, you'll contribute to the development, enhancement, and maintenance of highly scalable Taboola advertising systems. You’ll help build and scale one of the world’s largest real-time big data platforms, processing over 40TB of data daily, and work on the infrastructure behind our global recommendation engine, developing high-scale systems and tools that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance for millions of users worldwide. To thrive in this role, you’ll need: Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field Professional Experience:1+ years in software development Backend Development: Proven experience with Java equivalent Object-Oriented language Software Principles: Understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns, and clean code practice. Language: Technical level of English proficiency Experience working with AI tools and a good understanding of core AI concepts Agile Environment: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives) Bonus points if you have: Experienced with Spring and Kafka Frontend Development: Experienced with JavaScript and React. Database Systems: Experience with SQL and NoSQL (mysql / Vertica / Cassandra) How you’ll make an impact: Design and develop systems that empower Taboola’s advertisers to effectively manage their advertising budgets and optimize performance toward their business goals. Build scalable and reliable solutions to process and analyze vast amounts of data, enabling actionable insights for advertisers. Work on a large-scale, high-throughput recommendations system and influence the way billions of people discover the internet. Utilize one of the largest real-time big data operations in the world, consisting of over 140TB of new data every day. Have end-to-end ownership: design, build, ship, measure, and maintain our products for advertisers to achieve their campaign goals effectively and at scale. Collaborate with talented engineers, data scientists, and product mana gers to build innovative and impactful solutions. Why Taboola? If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about: Adam Singolda, Taboola Founder and CEO says; “You can copy anything from another business but you can’t copy a company’s culture.